From purely engineering, manufacturing side, maybe, but you often have pay more than just the manufacturing cost. The companies have to pay for a good marketing team, customer service team, and after sales maintenance team for example. They might need the capital for certifications entering a new market too, for example. All of these cost money.

Grinder companies are still innovating too IMO. Burr design is an ongoing r&d in a lot of companies. Ionizer is another quite recent addition to combat retention.

Thousands in monthly production sold at close to cost might not be enough when considering ongoing expenses like salaries, r&d, etc.

https://www.comunicaffe.com/weber-workshops-launches-the-bird-coffee-brewer/

For leverage against the vacuum pressure, it seems.

$360

If you’re interested, this paper filter for French press should help with cleaning up: https://timemore.vn/product/timemore-coffee-paper-filter-french-press/

I’m interested to see/read the reviews. But in terms of pressure, I’m assuming that it’s not too much different from aeropress.

I personally think this has potential for the following:

• stainless steel material. Great for people who wants to avoid plastic.
• insulated twin wall. Should offer good heat retention.
• smooth wall. Should make it possible to negotiate paper filter to make it into a no bypass brewer.

The replaceable base is just a bonus IMO. I personally will probably just choose the fastest one and rarely change it if I own one.

Hopefully they won’t use that v60 again to serve customers 😂

SmartTube is more optimized for TV: https://github.com/yuliskov/smarttube

Give it a try.

First time hearing about bird friendly coffee. That’s very interesting.

Thanks! 🥳

Does anyone know the name of the music used in the intro? I’ve tried Shazam and Google, but the results are all wrong :( Thanks.

/u/Lucid5603@lemmy.dbzer0.com found the PDF:

https://lemmy.ml/comment/4967998

What about preserving languages that are close to extinct, but still have language data available? Can LLMs help in this case?

First time hearing about it. Link for others who are also wondering what Microsoft Pluton is:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2020/11/17/meet-the-microsoft-pluton-processor-the-security-chip-designed-for-the-future-of-windows-pcs/

While whether LLMs are intelligent or not is still hotly debated. I think the author’s thoughts are very interesting.

This is crazy to me. You can read in a stream of meaningless numbers (tokens) and incidentally build a reasonably accurate model of the real things those tokens represent.

The implications are vast. We may be able to translate between languages that have never had a “Rosetta Stone”. Any animals that have a true language could have it decoded. And while an LLM that’s gotten an 8 year old’s understanding of balancing assorted items isn’t that useful, an LLM that’s got a baby whale’s grasp on whale language would be revolutionary.

The article is predicting that smartphones and movie cameras might adopt this.

I’m guessing that this method eliminates differences in pouring technique from person to person.

And filtering it eliminates fines and crema.

James Hoffmann agrees that crema looks beautiful but doesn’t taste very good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ3TcpI2Lu8

Which one did you order? The v3 or the updated v3 or v4?

For brewers like v60, aeropress, hario switch, orea, they’re typically very easy and quick to clean. The coffee grounds are being held by the paper filters. Just toss the filter and coffee grounds to the bin and rinse the brewer. With aeropress you just need to rinse the plunger.

In terms of time. It really depends on the brewer and pouring method of choice.

With immersion brewers (aeropress, hario switch, pulsar, etc), longer steep time usually means tastier brews, but it’s not mandatory. 2-3 minutes is normally fine, but there’s an aeropress recipe where you steep for 9 minutes. Immersion brewers are typically very forgiving and can give you tasty cups of coffee consistently. You can just set a timer and then clean your grinder or prepare breakfast or doing something else in the mean time haha

With percolation brewers (v60, orea, kalita, april, etc), you might want to do multiple pours to get the taste you want. For example, 5 pours of 50ml. So you don’t just stand there doing nothing. There are plenty of different recipes with different pouring structures that can give you different cups of coffee. Great for experimenting.

And what does “normal coffee maker” mean in this context? Espresso maker? But normally strong or weak coffee depends on a lot of things. Coffee to brew water ratio, roast level, water temperature, etc.